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So I think the lesson from this is "ignore BoLS"?

People need to be taught that?

 pretre wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 DarknessEternal wrote:
Can someone change the title of this thread to "definitely not new suits"

That would be an improvement from "Poaaiblw New Crisis Suits". Pretre, were you drinking and thread updating at the same time?

I've changed it a couple times and it keeps changing back.

Ok, mods, fess up... who is trolling Pretre?

Hard to believe they'd make new suits with the same, weak ankles...that's what made me think "fake".

BOLS has a purpose. It's a good place to catch up on day old news if you don't get the chance to follow online forums like Dakka on a daily basis (or hourly for fast evolving rumors). It's kind of like the difference between buying fresh baked bread at a bakery that is still fragrant and warm straight out of the oven (dakka) and buying manager's special bread at 50% off because it is about to expire the next day (BOLS) that you have to double check to make sure it isn't moldy already. They're the discount stale bread of tabletop gaming news and rumors.

 agnosto wrote:
Hard to believe they'd make new suits with the same, weak ankles...that's what made me think "fake".

I don't know. I actually think the new Broadsides have the absolute worst ankles so far so it wouldn't surprise me if they kept it up. I really wish they'd go away from the tip toe design because it is extremely annoying.

 Kanluwen wrote:
People need to be taught that?

Perhaps re-learn

Seems like we've got some sad news: Possibly no Tau in September :(

From Lady Atia on Bolter and Chainsword - http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2015/09/no-tau-yet-no-csm-stormcast-eternal.html

September 19th is Stormcast Eternals afaik ... Knight Heraldor and Knight Vexillor, no Tau, no Chaos, no Unicorns

and her post from her blog: http://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/138

The first 40k release should be Tau, afaik in October

I have always figured September to be pie-in-the-sky hopes. I am hanging my hat on the October date, personally. Its been the most consistent of inconsistent Tau rumors :-D

Maaaaaaaaaaan, no Unicorns? I need Unicorns back for my Wood Elves!

News from Open Day (from Facebook):




280 Euros

Looks like the instructions for that Tau supremacy suit that was pictured a few months back. If its 280 euros ($312) thats not too bad. I was expecting it to be worse.

Looks like the legs will be very poseable.

Are those sample instructions, or has forgeworld finally decided to try and show how to assemble the models without a vague grey scale set that looks like it was printed on a 1980's dot matrix printer?

Nocturus wrote:
Are those sample instructions, or has forgeworld finally decided to try and show how to assemble the models without a vague grey scale set that looks like it was printed on a 1980's dot matrix printer?

Aww, where's the fun in that?!

Seriously, the amount of time I've spent poring over the pictures on the FW website, trying to figure out where this bit goes is just silly.

I think I might be starting Tau just because of that supremacy suit.

Nocturus wrote:
Are those sample instructions, or has forgeworld finally decided to try and show how to assemble the models without a vague grey scale set that looks like it was printed on a 1980's dot matrix printer?

FW apparently now has someone new whose job is to just make instructions. This is part of that slow grinding push to make FW more accessible.

 Jadenim wrote:

Nocturus wrote:
Are those sample instructions, or has forgeworld finally decided to try and show how to assemble the models without a vague grey scale set that looks like it was printed on a 1980's dot matrix printer?

Aww, where's the fun in that?!

Seriously, the amount of time I've spent poring over the pictures on the FW website, trying to figure out where this bit goes is just silly.

LOL. Yeah, they could definitely give you a nice rotatable image like the GW ones Or at least a few different angles.

Actually on their new website I've noticed quite a few things have rotatable images now. But yeah I think there's a guy at FW whose whole job is to make the instructions so hopefully we'll start seeing more of them.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Actually on their new website I've noticed quite a few things have rotatable images now. But yeah I think there's a guy at FW whose whole job is to make the instructions so hopefully we'll start seeing more of them.

Yup! I guess it was that gal who took photos and did a Reddit AMA

The photos on the new site are generally much better than the old one.

New pics of the KX139: http://imgur.com/a/gXO2q

I really like that new style of box.


Not as large as I thought. Huh.


Um...okay. Yeah, big guns.


I guess a different set of arms is included or going to be available? Looks like something plasma-y.

That one resembles XV9's fusion cascade weapons. But yes, there's still another arm weapon we have yet to see

 Vector Strike wrote:
That one resembles XV9's fusion cascade weapons. But yes, there's still another arm weapon we have yet to see

Isn't each barrel almost identical to the alternate hammerhead turret gun that practically no one uses? My guess would be that it is a souped up version of that as a base.

i want to see an Ork mek loot that gattling cannon of gattling cannons and make it into a gattling cannon^3. almost enuff dakka

It's actually bigger than I thought.

 warboss wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:
That one resembles XV9's fusion cascade weapons. But yes, there's still another arm weapon we have yet to see

Isn't each barrel almost identical to the alternate hammerhead turret gun that practically no one uses? My guess would be that it is a souped up version of that as a base.

What, Railguns?

From what I've seen people use Ion Cannons, if they actually field Hammerheads.

The Fusion Cascade weapons he mentioned are quite different.

So, since we have build pics of the new tau titan, two questions;

1 - does this mean someone has one? Or is that a fw employee's workdesk?

2 - what are the odds this bad boy might be in the new codex?

Yeah, yeah, I know they seem to have a new policy of not including units that don't have models - but speculatively, that would be an amazing way to launch the new FW/GW ordering integration - put a new FW unit in a new codex.

Thoughts?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:
That one resembles XV9's fusion cascade weapons. But yes, there's still another arm weapon we have yet to see

Isn't each barrel almost identical to the alternate hammerhead turret gun that practically no one uses? My guess would be that it is a souped up version of that as a base.

What, Railguns?

From what I've seen people use Ion Cannons, if they actually field Hammerheads.

The Fusion Cascade weapons he mentioned are quite different.

You have an odd local meta if they use ion cannons much more than hammerheads... but yes I was referring to the Ion loadout.

 warboss wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:
That one resembles XV9's fusion cascade weapons. But yes, there's still another arm weapon we have yet to see

Isn't each barrel almost identical to the alternate hammerhead turret gun that practically no one uses? My guess would be that it is a souped up version of that as a base.

What, Railguns?

From what I've seen people use Ion Cannons, if they actually field Hammerheads.

The Fusion Cascade weapons he mentioned are quite different.

You have an odd local meta if they use ion cannons much more than hammerheads... but yes I was referring to the Ion loadout.

The keywords there were "if they actually field Hammerheads".

Vehicles, in general, aren't considered that great in 7th edition if they're not Superheavies.

The three barreled cannon arm is basically just three ion cannons strapped together.

The arm of many barrels definitely looks like the fusion cascades because of the over/under barrel designs.

It's really like they tried to put every weapon available on this suit.